Police arrested a 20-year-old gamekeeper for wearing a "Bollocks to Blair" T-shirt at a game fair last weekend
A girl was arrested for wearing her "Bollocks to Blair" T-shirt at the Midlands Game Fair last weekend. Charlotte Denis, 20, a gamekeeper from Gloucestershire, was stopped by police as she left the Countryside Alliance stand because of the "offensive" slogan.
Shocked and dismayed to be made a public spectacle, Denis tried to reason with the officers: "What do you want me to do? Take my top off and wear my bra?"
At this point, two officers marched Denis towards a police car. "They grabbed me as if I was a football hooligan," she says.
Although the "Bollocks to Blair" slogan was in evidence all round the Game Fair, police maintained it was the first time they had seen it.
"They had to walk past a huge banner in order to get to me and there were lots of other people wearing the T-shirts," explained Denis.
A tearful Denis was driven to a mobile police unit. "I asked the officers how they could arrest someone for wearing a T-shirt and they told me it was because it would offend a 70-80-year-old woman," she said.
After agreeing to wear a friend's coat, Denis was released without charge. But the incident ruined her day: "You don't expect to be treated like that at a country fair," she said.
Denis bought her T-shirt at Badminton Horse Trials last year, as well as a matching badge she wears on her coat.
"Bollocks to Blair" merchandise is manufactured by Splash and first appeared last year.
"The demand has been crazy," said Splash director Toby Rhodes. "The slogan is an expression of anger in the countryside -- which we are not trying to incite. We originally thought it a bit too direct for us but it has been popular with all ages. I've been told that some police officers wear the T-shirts under their uniforms."
"It's complete nonsense," said the Countryside Alliance. "The police surely have better things to do with their time than protect the Prime Minister's modesty."
This news story was first published in Horse & Hound (22 September, '05)
MSFT+AOL? Ouch! This is not "two great tastes that are better together".
MSFT might have a lot of 'bread', but not enough to swallow that sh*t sandwich. Ballmer just re-orged. He can't keep things together between OS, Apps and Online (MSN) as it stands today. MSN is held back from 'innovating' in the Application space (no 'online Office').
AOL will get them another org headache coupled with a dwindling customer base, most of whom would leave if they could stop getting their card charged.
Previous story on/. was entitled: Unintended Consequences
Theoretically, in the US there is a presumption of a right to privacy in the Constitution. Even the Roberts hearings today gave no hint of a reversal on this one...
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After builing lots of crap on your home network, you will discover how not to do things. By the time you catch yourself using vi keystrokes in NOTEPAD and Slashdot comment fields, you ar eprobably ready to inflict your BOfH-self on the world.
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Also, MS is the last man standing in a dead market. This means they have really no competition, and are charging for something that others give away.
They are crazy, charging for an OS, and creationg all these hoops to jump through for licensing, registration and authorization!
Ship the frikin' thing. Charge for media, boxes and books. Even charge manufacturers a nominal fee to bundle it. Charge customers nothing for bits. Bill the support at reasonable and attractive pricing, and really support it.
Bill will have to die first. The firm was built on licensing retail and OEM copies of DOS, and went through the roof by doing the same for Windows. Unfortunately, that was last centuries business. Only the position of their many billions makes this appear to be continually viable. If people and corporations have to pay for an OS on the desktop CPU, without having to do the same for handheld and telephony cpus... The attention will move to these spaces, and general purpose computers will become what they were in the early 80's - content creator workstations.
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There's the basis of your racist bullshit from FEMA, right there. Someone got their whole family drowned, has been starved, dehydrated, literally dragged through shit, kept in a stable under the conditions of a hog farm feed-lot... Listening to Kurupt is gonna' put 'em over the edge.
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Girl arrested over Bollocks to Blair shirt
H&H staff writer22 September, 2005
Police arrested a 20-year-old gamekeeper for wearing a "Bollocks to Blair" T-shirt at a game fair last weekend
A girl was arrested for wearing her "Bollocks to Blair" T-shirt at the Midlands Game Fair last weekend. Charlotte Denis, 20, a gamekeeper from Gloucestershire, was stopped by police as she left the Countryside Alliance stand because of the "offensive" slogan.Shocked and dismayed to be made a public spectacle, Denis tried to reason with the officers: "What do you want me to do? Take my top off and wear my bra?"
At this point, two officers marched Denis towards a police car. "They grabbed me as if I was a football hooligan," she says.
Although the "Bollocks to Blair" slogan was in evidence all round the Game Fair, police maintained it was the first time they had seen it.
"They had to walk past a huge banner in order to get to me and there were lots of other people wearing the T-shirts," explained Denis.
A tearful Denis was driven to a mobile police unit. "I asked the officers how they could arrest someone for wearing a T-shirt and they told me it was because it would offend a 70-80-year-old woman," she said.
After agreeing to wear a friend's coat, Denis was released without charge. But the incident ruined her day: "You don't expect to be treated like that at a country fair," she said.
Denis bought her T-shirt at Badminton Horse Trials last year, as well as a matching badge she wears on her coat.
"Bollocks to Blair" merchandise is manufactured by Splash and first appeared last year.
"The demand has been crazy," said Splash director Toby Rhodes. "The slogan is an expression of anger in the countryside -- which we are not trying to incite. We originally thought it a bit too direct for us but it has been popular with all ages. I've been told that some police officers wear the T-shirts under their uniforms."
"It's complete nonsense," said the Countryside Alliance. "The police surely have better things to do with their time than protect the Prime Minister's modesty."
This news story was first published in Horse & Hound (22 September, '05)
MSFT+AOL? Ouch! This is not "two great tastes that are better together".
MSFT might have a lot of 'bread', but not enough to swallow that sh*t sandwich. Ballmer just re-orged. He can't keep things together between OS, Apps and Online (MSN) as it stands today. MSN is held back from 'innovating' in the Application space (no 'online Office').
AOL will get them another org headache coupled with a dwindling customer base, most of whom would leave if they could stop getting their card charged.
I seen a lot of copies of "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Fight Club" with Sharpie labels on people's shelves at home...
I wonder if the book comes with decals to replace worn-out semi-colon keytops?
You are contrcting for a University at a Department of Energy facility, and your shiny, new 1000$ phone is confiscated and you lose clearance...
Bukowski said it 35 years ago - "A man's an a**h*le on earth, he's still an A**h*le on the moon."
Theoretically, in the US there is a presumption of a right to privacy in the Constitution. Even the Roberts hearings today gave no hint of a reversal on this one...
Clarification:
A package in the NeXT/OS X world is just a directory and its subordinates, with metadata that describes the contents - an XML file in the latest incarnation, to keep with prevailing fashons in notation.
If you never had Unix in your schooldays, this may be tougher than it sounds.
After builing lots of crap on your home network, you will discover how not to do things. By the time you catch yourself using vi keystrokes in NOTEPAD and Slashdot comment fields, you ar eprobably ready to inflict your BOfH-self on the world.
These seven are just for the client. Wait 'til we get 5 or 6 server SKUs, too!
How nice for Americans everywhere. We were all beginning to be so welcome abroad anyway...
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Makes me think of "Warlords of the Air" - a peculiar Moorcock book from the 70's. Had flying dreadnaughts - designed by the Chilean wizard O'Bean.
They are crazy, charging for an OS, and creationg all these hoops to jump through for licensing, registration and authorization!
Ship the frikin' thing. Charge for media, boxes and books. Even charge manufacturers a nominal fee to bundle it. Charge customers nothing for bits. Bill the support at reasonable and attractive pricing, and really support it.
Bill will have to die first. The firm was built on licensing retail and OEM copies of DOS, and went through the roof by doing the same for Windows. Unfortunately, that was last centuries business. Only the position of their many billions makes this appear to be continually viable. If people and corporations have to pay for an OS on the desktop CPU, without having to do the same for handheld and telephony cpus... The attention will move to these spaces, and general purpose computers will become what they were in the early 80's - content creator workstations.
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Makes me want to eat a cuuried egg, as we speak...
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."
-- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels
Ms. Stringer supplied the quote - relaying the concern of FEMA - i.e.: the reasons they shut her down.
You seem to be an expert on human anatomy, though. Better luck with that pursuit!
Every fifth child in Scotland is the Duchess of York?
There's the basis of your racist bullshit from FEMA, right there. Someone got their whole family drowned, has been starved, dehydrated, literally dragged through shit, kept in a stable under the conditions of a hog farm feed-lot... Listening to Kurupt is gonna' put 'em over the edge.
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